Last 2 opening kickoffs - who receives them?

[BB73]

This vBet is based on which team receives the opening kickoffs for the last 2 regular season games.

It's from a request in the game thread, which also pointed out that tOSU has received the opening kickoff in every game so far this year.

NOTE - This has nothing to do with who wins the coin toss, it's based strictly on which team receives the opening kickoff.

 

[Dryden]

Has OSU won the toss in every game? Sure seems like it, but I don't remember.

 

[osugrad21]

Dispatch

OSU notebook: Flippin' good at calling coin toss
Buckeyes, Laurinaitis have hot streak going
Friday, November 14, 2008 2:57 AM
By Ken Gordon and Bill Rabinowitz


THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH



James Laurinaitis is an All-America linebacker and coin-flip caller? The Ohio State captain calls the toss when the Buckeyes are on the road, and he's on a roll, having won the past three.
"Tails never fails," he said, grinning.
OSU also has won the past two in Ohio Stadium, when the visiting team calls it, giving the Buckeyes a five-game coin-toss win streak. Overall, OSU has won seven of 10 coin flips.
Beginning last season, when kickoffs were moved back five yards to the 30-yard line, coach Jim Tressel has taken the ball first when OSU wins the toss, rather than deferring to the second half.
"We thought that you have a chance, even with an average return, to be out to the 25," Tressel said. "When the ball was being kicked from the 35 and so many balls were going as touchbacks, we didn't necessarily think that that's an advantage starting on the 20, so we thought, 'Well, let's begin the game with some field position.' "
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[BB73]

Has OSU won the toss in every game? Sure seems like it, but I don't remember.

Per the newspaper article today (now copied in above), the team has won 7 of 10.

And the receiving the opening kickoff streak is at 17 games.

 

[Pryor2Posey]

We get the butterflies out early! :tongue2: